Quadro

Autodesk Industry Collections

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Model data sets are growing increasingly large and complex and advances in technology such as affordable 4K monitors are facilitating CAD workflows. In addition, the emerging adoption of virtual reality for design workflows is underlining the importance of professional GPUs for leading edge work. This is prompting design and engineering professionals using Autodesk tools to demand increasingly powerful and reliable graphics performance.

[With an] NVIDIA Quadro graphics card, the outputs are very realistic, very fast and very powerful.

Jon Wells, Senior Designer, Morgan Motor Company

The combination of NVIDIA hardware and NVIDIA Iray physically based rendering with Autodesk products gives designers, engineers and architects the power to interactively visualize their models with photo-real renders while they work. GPU acceleration is integral to the Iray rendering engines in 3ds Max, as well as Iray rendering software plug-ins from NVIDIA for 3ds Max and Maya. This scalable, accelerated, physically based rendering helps users remain in their creative flow and iterate on designs by viewing photo-real renders of their modifications in real time.

Autodesk certifies and recommends NVIDIA professional graphics processors, so it’s not hard to see why Autodesk software users rely on NVIDIA Quadro cards more than any other when working on their critical projects.

Also, since Autodesk supports NVIDIA GPU pass-through GRID technology to accelerate graphics for virtual desktops, for AutoCAD, Inventor and Revit, users can now get the same graphics performance and experience in a virtualised environment, as they would expect from their PC or workstation with NVIDIA GRID™.

Performance

DO YOUR BEST WORK FASTER

Design professionals using Autodesk software tools rely on NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics cards more than any other when working on their critical projects. Increasing adoption of 4K displays and virtual reality for CAD work means designers continue to depend on the power and reliability of professional GPUs to maintain the smooth workflow to which they are accustomed.

Quadro pro GPUs provide exceptional performance for the latest releases of Autodesk® AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, 3ds Max, and Maya. This means you can easily dial up the complexity of your designs, visualise every detail faster, and work out issues earlier in the design cycle.

NVIDIA Iray plug-ins for 3ds Max and Maya together with Iray Server distributed rendering software provides rendering scalability so designers, engineers, and architects can photorealistically visualise their design changes on the fly.

By harnessing the power of NVIDIA Quadro VCAs, a network attached appliance equipped with high-end NVIDIA GPUs, users of Autodesk Revit, 3ds Max, and Maya can achieve blazingly fast rendering speeds that were previously unattainable.

For even more rendering power, Iray plug-ins from NVIDIA for 3ds Max and Maya deliver the fluid realism and scalability designers need to fully understand their project's appearance and lighting as they craft and present their designs. NVIDIA Iray Server distributed rendering software can then slash the time for creating challenging images by scaling Iray rendering across your network.

NVIDIA Iray plug-ins help product designers visualise predictable digital prototypes at speeds never before possible. They can explore more design iterations in less time with the confidence that they're seeing a lifelike virtual product.

With NVIDIA Iray, architects can interactively show photorealistic representations of their building designs—both exteriors and interiors—in any lighting environment. They can interact in real time with forms, materials, and lights to precisely visualise all aspects of the buildings and structures they’re creating. Design reviews with clients and colleagues are more effective, and architects can explore additional design concepts more quickly, confident that they’re seeing a lifelike virtual model as they iterate.

Productivity

ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY WITH NVIDIA GRID

Until recently, the benefits of virtualization weren’t accessible to designers and engineers at manufacturing and AEC firms because a satisfactory user experience with their 3D graphics-intensive design software simply wasn’t possible.

NVIDIA GRID technology leverages GPUs in the data center to deliver 3D applications over the network for a native PC experience, bringing Autodesk software to more users, in more places. AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit users can now access the power of the GPU to get the same highly responsive 3D graphics experience from the cloud that they have with their professional workstation.

Now the latest generation of GRID technology is further expanding the capabilities of accelerated virtual desktops with significant improvements in performance and user density. Autodesk users can be even more productive—from any device, anywhere, anytime. Find out more.

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